Chapter 12: time for play

Glaceon:

~flashback~

I still couldn't believe my eyes. Seeing my cousins smiling happily like they use to and making me feel warm and snug just being near them. No matter what they always use to make me feel much better than anyone or anything around me. I looked at them tearfully and said "cousin Vaporeon? Cousin Jolteon? And cousin Flareon? It's been far too long" they looked at me surprisingly and Vaporeon said "we saw you about two hours ago dear"

Vaporeon was the sweetest, she was always in a cheerful mood and no matter what she always smiled. Jolteon was the prankster of the family, he wanted to have fun and laugh all day long. And Flareon was the most temperamental, always got angry easily especially with Jolteon and his tricks. Flareon looked and said as I daydreamed "eevee? Eevee? Is anyone in there?" I looked at Flareon and nodded slowly wondering exactly how all this is happening.

Jolteon smiled, when he smiled it often meant he had a trick up his sleeve and was about to set it into action. Flareon stared at Jolteon and gave him a pissed off look before the trick had even been sprung. I laughed happily thinking that this is so much fun though we aren't really doing much.

Vaporeon:

I smiled more at the eevee and said "why don't we play a game in the Brass Tower?" the eevee smiled and nodded as I continued "what do you want to play?" Jolteon added "today is about you having fun with us so we'll play any game you want" Flareon nodded in agreement. The eevee, past Glaceon, looked and asked "can we play chase throughout the whole tower?"

I laughed with Jolteon and Flareon then said "anything you want eevee" eevee smiled and ran around us. He was behaving more cheerful than normal. Maybe he just loves playing with us and wanted to build happy memories. I said happily "ready eevee?" eevee nodded and covered his eyes. Jolteon ran up to the third floor, Flareon ran to the second floor and I ran to the first floor as eevee counted to forty.

Eevee counted to forty and chased after me. I dodged and weaved around the room in a big circle with eevee chasing and laughing. He kept trying to reach for my tails but I kept moving them out of the way. This motivated the eevee to try to catch me even more. I could tell by the sound of his laughing it didn't matter if he caught me or not he was having fun and that's all that mattered.

Jolteon:

I heard the laughing of my little cousin on the first floor and couldn't help but smile knowing that we're really having fun. I wondered as I stared out of the tower window exactly why did eevee want me to hang out with him more when we didn't really have much in common. I thought continuously about it for awhile. Flareon ran up to me and said "careful eevee is almost here" I looked at the stairs and eevee was there like he was getting ready to pounce on someone.

I laughed and ran as eevee chased me. We kept letting eevee chase us. Vaporeon helped eevee catch me and Flareon which was a big help for eevee. When he caught us he'd jump onto our backs and hug with a cute purr. The first of us to get caught was Vaporeon, he purred on her back for five minutes. The next one to be caught was Flareon. He isn't use to being caught like that so naturally he blushed and felt embarrassed.

I laughed since it wasn't often I see Flareon blush like that. He got pissed at me and chased me with a searing intent. Flareon shouted at me "GET BACK HERE NOW!" I kept running with eevee and Vaporeon watching and laughing since Flareon was usually annoyed at me.

Flareon:

I was so pissed at Jolteon. All I could think about was catching him and putting him in a box for awhile. Jolteon kept running and eevee and Vaporeon laughed at us. I caught Jolteon in a net and dragged him back to where eevee and Vaporeon was. We all except jolteon laughed as he said still in the net "this is so not fair"

Flareon looked at Jolteon and said to him "all is fair in love and war. So suck it up and be a man about it" Jolteon simply looked to the side and said "don't have to be mean about it" Flareon petted eevee and smiled. Eevee laughed and hugged me. I decided to hug my little cousin and Vaporeon let me have this moment with him.

I asked eevee "what do you wanna do? We've played chase so we can play anything else you want" eevee smiled and thought. He looked up and smiled saying "I'd like to play tag" I smiled and nodded and then asked "who do you want to be it? And chase everyone else" eevee smiled more and laughed. Vaporeon and Jolteon, who got out of the net, waited for an answer from eevee when he said "I want you to be it" eevee raised his paws facing me.

Glaceon:

I jumped up and ran with Vaporeon. Flareon looked at Jolteon as he gasped and ran too. Flareon chased Jolteon up and down the tower. Me and Vaporeon went outside of the tower and heard loud crash noises as Jolteon ran into objects and the walls on each floor with Flareon not too far behind him. I couldn't help but laugh loudly at the sounds. Vaporeon giggled along with me. Every now and then me and Vaporeon heard Flareon shout to Jolteon "GET HERE YOU BASTARD! WE'RE NOT DONE YET!" Vaporeon hugged me and said "Flareon gets like that and he hates it when Jolteon pulls tricks on him"

I looked up and nodded saying "I know he is always like that" Vaporeon smiled down at me and looked at the tower as Flareon and Jolteon made more noise. I asked "should we let them play and we could go to the lake and have a nice swim?" Vaporeon giggled and nodded saying "that sounds like fun" we both walked to the lake next to the tower and had a swim in there. Everything felt like I was really living it again and I couldn't help but feel here was where I was meant to be. What was I mean to do? And is there a purpose to reliving this?